Android Apps Security: Mitigate Hacking Attacks and Security Breaches

✍ Scribed by Sheran Gunasekera

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 300
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Gain the information you need to design secure, useful, high-performing apps that expose end-users to as little risk as possible. This book shows you how to best design and develop Android apps with security in mind: explore concepts that you can use to secure apps and how you can use and incorporate these security features into your apps.

What You Will Learn

• Identify data that should be secured
  
• Use the Android APIs to ensure confidentiality and integrity of data
  
• Build secure apps for the enterprise
  
• Implement Public Key Infrastructure and encryption APIs in apps
  
• Master owners, access control lists, and permissions to allow user control over app properties
  
• Manage authentication, transport layer encryption, and server-side security

Who This Book Is For

Experienced Android app developers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
Introduction (Sheran Gunasekera)....Pages 1-15
Recap of Secure Development Principles (Sheran Gunasekera)....Pages 17-33
App Licensing and SafetyNet (Sheran Gunasekera)....Pages 35-56
Securing Your Apps at Scale (Sheran Gunasekera)....Pages 57-89
Hacking Your App (Sheran Gunasekera)....Pages 91-119
The Tool Bag (Sheran Gunasekera)....Pages 121-144
Hacking Your App #2 (Sheran Gunasekera)....Pages 145-172
Rooting Your Android Device (Sheran Gunasekera)....Pages 173-223
Bypassing SSL Pinning (Sheran Gunasekera)....Pages 225-265
Looking Ahead (Sheran Gunasekera)....Pages 267-290
Back Matter ....Pages 291-294

✦ Subjects

Computer Science; Mobile Computing; Programming Techniques